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Friday, April 11, 2014

Sepia Saturday: Hop To It

Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family
history through old photographs.

This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a quartet of photos
with a unifying subject of our choice. With Easter
around the corner, now is the perfect time for bunnies. Lots and lots of Easter bunnies. Well, 6 bunnies anyway.

When my sister and I were little kids, Easter meant a
basket full of jelly beans, a chocolate bunny, a couple Peeps, a big fancy cake
or candy egg from the bakery, an orchid corsage from our dad, and an Easter
pet. For several years we received baby
chicks or ducks. One year Mary Jollette
got a duck and her friend Rusty got rabbits.

I don’t know what became of our chicks and ducks when
they got too big. I don’t want to know.

But from the looks of things, an Easter pet wasn’t
anything new in our family.

Funny you should say that because I NEVER think of tying in a holiday, anniversary, birthday or anything that would make life easier for me. I nearly broke my arm patting myself on the back for thinking of it THIS time!

Friends of mine gave their children a duckling for Easter one year. "Waddles" grew up (!) and became a neighborhood pet - wandering up & down the block looking for handouts. But come fall, kids heading to school began to tease & taunt him, so mom & dad decided he should be taken down to Lake Merritt in Oakland & set free to mingle with all the other ducks there. Tearfully, as they set Waddles in the water, the children waved goodbye to their beloved pet. As for Waddles, he swam straightaway for the other ducks & never looked back. Even mom & dad were a little shaken that the family pet couldn't care less about them anymore. Hopefully, Waddles found himself a mate & had lots of healthy offspring.

Bunnies can make great pets. We found a bunny, a black domestic rabbit that somehow was loose in our back drive, and kept it as a pet for almost 8 years. It was fearless and could assert itself for the "power position" on the front porch from both our dog and cat. We named it Dusty.

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My name is Wendy. About twenty years ago, I helped my mother research the Jolletts. Since retiring from teaching, I have expanded my research which I share here. When I’m not looking for my own family, I index for FamilySearch and the Greene County Historical Society.
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